I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Friendship is love without his wings!

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.